[[Fasciculus:Doutielt3.jpg|thumb|[[Turnacum|Turnacenses]] pestilentiâ mortuous sepuliunt (pictura anni circiter 1353)]]
[[Fasciculus:1346-1353 spread of the Black Death in Europe map.svg|thumb|Incrementum atrae mortis in Europa]]
'''AtraMors morsatra,'''<ref name=atramors1>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45815/45815-0.txt THE GREAT PESTILENCE (A.D. 1348-9)]</ref><ref name=atramors2>*[https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=OWdnAAAAMAAJ&q=atra+mors++pontanus&dq=atra+mors++pontanus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMmcudp_7bAhVMdt4KHdzMD-UQ6AEINzAD Crisis Or Change - The Concept of Crisis in the Light of Agrarian Structural Reorganization in Late Medieval England ab Neils Heibel]</ref><ref name=atramors3>*[https://books.google.fr/books?id=jtpEAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=atra%20mors&f=false ex 'Rerum danicarum historia, libris x vnoq[ue] tomo ad domum usque ...
De Johannes Isacius Pontanus' excipiens verbi 'Atra Mors ' in pagina 476]</ref> etiam '''pestis grandis'''{{FD ref}} et '''magna mortalitas''' appellata,<ref>Anno 1349: "[http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/folio.php?p=139r&showitem=139r-155v_CottonNeroCVII80r-84v_11PaschalTables_3Annals&highlight=mortalitas Magna mortalitas ita quod vix media pars populi remanebat]": ''Red Book of Thorney'' ([[Bibliotheca Universitatis Cantabrigiensis|ULC]] MS. Add. 3020-3021, anno fere 1456 exscriptus)</ref> fuit [[pandemia]] quae exitiabilior ulla erat in histora humana, erumpens in mortis aestimabilis inter 75 et 200 miliones hominium in [[Eurasia]] et cuius culmine in [[Europa]] erat inter annos 1347 et 1351.<ref name="ABC/Reuters">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/01/29/2149185.htm |title=Black death 'discriminated' between victims (ABC News in Science)|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |author=ABC/Reuters |date=29 January 2008 |accessdate=3 November 2008}}</ref><ref name="Health. De-coding the Black Death">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1576875.stm |title=Health. De-coding the Black Death |publisher=BBC |date=3 October 2001|accessdate=3 November 2008}}</ref><ref name="Black Death's Gene Code Cracked">{{cite news |url=http://archive.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2001/10/47288|title=Black Death's Gene Code Cracked |work=Wired |date= 3 October 2001|accessdate=12 February 2015}}</ref> ''[[Yersinia pestis]],'' [[bacterium]] quod erumpit in multis formis pestis, creditur originem eum fuisse.<ref>{{cite web|title=Plague|url=http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs267/en/|website=World Health Organization|accessdate=8 November 2017|date=October 2017}}</ref> Pestis hae creavit series eversiones [[religio]]nis, socialis, economicae quae graviditer affecit cursu historiae Europae.
Atra mors putatur in ortum fuisse in campis siccis [[Media Asia|Mediae Asiae]] unde commeavit per [[Via Serica|Viam Sericam]], [[Crimaea]]mque attingens anno 1343. Unde, verisimiliter vecta est ab [[pulex|pulicibus]] habitantibus in [[ratus|ratis]] orientalis quae viatores assidui sunt in navis mercatorium diffundente in [[Mediterraneum|Mediterraneo]] et [[Europa]]. Mors atra aestimatur occisum fuisse 30-60% totium numeri incolarum in Europa. <ref>{{Cite book | last = Austin Alchon | first = Suzanne | title = A pest in the land: new world epidemics in a global perspective | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YiHHnV08ebkC&pg=PA21| publisher = University of New Mexico Press | year = 2003 | page = 21 | isbn = 0-8263-2871-7 }}</ref> In toto plaga potest reduxisse populum a 450 milione ad 350–375 million in saeculo 14.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_history.php|title=Historical Estimates of World Population |publisher=Census.gov |accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref> Tantum post 200 annos numerus incolarum mundi ad priorem gradum suo recuperavit. Pestilentia recidivum erumpebat ut eruptiones in Europa usque saeculo 19.
